Timeline for Vipassana Meditation
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| Feb 15, 2018 at 23:38 | comment | added | Andriy Volkov♦ | I agree with Sankha. Meditation is a special subset of life, with fewer distractions, that's the whole point. Minimize distractions, focus on the state of mind. | |
| Feb 15, 2018 at 11:25 | comment | added | Sankha Kulathantille | It's like learning to swim. You don't jump into a whirlpool to begin your training just because you don't want to avoid difficulties. | |
| Feb 15, 2018 at 11:25 | comment | added | Sankha Kulathantille | Music gives rise to craving as it is pleasurable sound. It's not a case of you hearing music by chance which is played by someone else. You intentionally play music. That shows a craving towards the soothing sounds. Music is not an issue for the well trained yogi. But a well trained yogi wouldn't intentionally add music to meditation. The idea is to have the best possible conditions for meditation when you have a choice. Otherwise why not go to a nightclub for meditation? :) | |
| Feb 15, 2018 at 11:12 | comment | added | Val | What's so bad about music? It helps me to see impermanencr better. Also I'm not really a friend of ONLY having favourably conditions (ofc it is nice) but to master difficult ones as well. Meditation should help us to deal with difficulties better and not just give us more ease or run away from something.. that is never the point and if this is done either consciously or unconsciously one is running into what acceptance commitment therapists would say "Experiential Avoidance". "If you're not willing to have, you got it" | |
| Feb 15, 2018 at 2:03 | comment | added | Sankha Kulathantille | It's about finding a place with least number of distractions when you have a choice. Otherwise your meditation teacher would ask you to go meditate in a strip club.:) | |
| Feb 14, 2018 at 21:11 | comment | added | Gert Jan | In regards to 'Go to a quiet place with the least number of distractions.'; in my experience, that's not really a necessity. When I did my last retreat at Wat Chom Thong, there was a construction site right next to my room. During the day, they made a lot of noise. During the evening, the frogs took over, and they can be extremely loud. In the end, it's just 'hearing'. It doesn't matter if it's music or animals or whatever. On the other hand; music is emotion, so I certainly wouldn't advise to put on music. At a retreat it's even forbidden to play music. | |
| Feb 12, 2018 at 11:48 | history | edited | Sankha Kulathantille | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2018 at 7:04 | history | answered | Sankha Kulathantille | CC BY-SA 3.0 |